Howdy: And open source on all parts of our (Frank and I) work should make this attractive to someone to do, not necessarily us. We have been constantly amazed at the talent which comes out of th woodwork and talkes up what has been done and makes it better or uses it in someway we had not envisioned. This will happen with this as well. I am really happy the League is considering this. We will all benefit from it and this is very forward looking on their part in my opinion.
Bob Frank Brickle wrote: > --- In [email protected], "expeditionradio" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> We also have adapted ALE to do APRS-like stuff. But we call it ALE-GPR. >> >> The ALE protocol, especially with what you can do with AMD, is flexible. >> > > And in any case none of this is the last word, especially when hams > start chewing on it. > > For example, last year I did some statistical measurements on typical > NMEA sentences which indicated they're seriously redundant, about 75%. > Source coding could allow tucking the full vocabulary of GPS messages > in all sorts of odd places in the protocol. > > No reason to be limited by even what's been improved so far. > > 73 > Frank > AB2KT > > > > -- AMSAT Director and VP Engineering. Member: ARRL, AMSAT-DL, TAPR, Packrats, NJQRP, QRP ARCI, QCWA, FRC. ARRL SDR WG Chair "Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest." - Piet Hine
